Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great God on My Head Phumiphon Adundet,* the Power Coming from the Strength of the Earth, at long last stepped ashore from the flagship Sri Ayuthia onto Siamese soil, every temple bell in the land rang out a greeting...
Ever since hard-hitting Pancho Gonzales followed Jack Kramer onto the professional trail, U.S. amateur tennis has become an old man's game. Going into the semi-finals of the national indoor tennis championships last week, 31-year-old Billy Talbert, who has won some 20 national titles in his time, sadly took note of the fact: "If the Davis Cup team were picked right now it would probably be composed of three old men, Ted Schroeder [28], Gardnar Mulloy...
Next day it looked as though Veteran Talbert was unduly pessimistic about the youngsters. Stepping onto the boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he ran into 25-year-old Fred Kovaleski of Hamtramck, Mich., who promptly dumped Talbert out of the running...
When Henry Green's sly and sprightly Loving made its belated U.S. bow last fall (TIME, Oct. 10), the critics cheered and the public bought enough copies to push it onto bestseller lists. With his newest cultivated farce, Nothing, Author Green should do as well...
Temple pulled his sword from its seabbard, but instead of attacking Oswald, he stabbed himself in the leg, cutting an artery and causing blood to spurt onto the Brattle stage...